biography
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Ibn al-'Arabi or Abenarabi
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in full Abubakr Muhammad ibn al-'Arabi al-Hatimi at-Ta'a
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pronunciation:
[ibin al arabee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1165–1240)
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| biography:
| A sufi, born in Murcia, who was the greatest mystic of Muslim Spain. His monumental work is al-Futuhat al-Makkiyah (The Meccan Revelations) which is a compendium of spiritual lore, but he wrote copiously on metaphysics, cosmology, psychology, and the Qur'an. His most widely-read book and testament is the Fusus al-hikam, or Bezels of Wisdom (1229). After Ibn al-Fari, Ibn al-'Arabi is considered the best of sufi poets writing in Arabic. His doctrines have left their mark in Dante and Ramon Llull. Posterity has called him ‘ash-Shaikh al-Akbar’ (Doctor Maximus) and ‘Muhyi ad-Din’ (Reviver of Religion). |
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